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   From: oxtail@nowhere.org   
      
   Catawumpus wrote:   
      
   > oxtail :   
   >   
   >> What does it mean for it to be empty that "there actually is the next   
   >> world"?   
   >   
   >      Means you're so offended by the Buddha's statement, "There   
   > actually is the next world" in the Apannaka Sutta you're pretending it's   
   > an empty assertion.  But that isn't the case in the sutta.  Just the   
   > opposite:  the Buddha calls it "true dhamma," right speech," and so on.   
   > Precisely what you tried to deny.   
      
      
   Looking at this world,   
   I would love to believe that   
   there is the next world.   
   But I don't find it skillful   
   to believe in such a thing.   
   I find it skillful to practice   
   the dharma in this world.   
      
   --   
   Oxtail is not doing what he thinks he is doing here.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)